Sholi
PERFORMING AT SOMEDAY
Saturday, March 10 › 9pm › $6
The Dead Science with Parenthetical Girls, Sholi and Ghost to Falco
About the artist
Sholi is a San Francisco Bay Area trio consisting of guitarist/singer Payam Bavafa, drummer Jonathon Bafus, and bassist Eric Ruud. This lineup was solidified in September of 2005, and has made vast leaps forward in 2006. A Sholi song will explore a range of moods and tonalities, be tied to a strong emotional and thematic core, and will accomplish these ends in surprising ways. Primary songwriter Bavafa crafts melodies to rival some of indie-pop's finest, and his lyrics carry near-hallucinogenic clarity. His agile and inventive guitar playing fills two roles, sometimes melding with the shifting, liquid rhythmic patterns of Bafus and Ruud, sometimes floating above. This rhythm section draws equally from the joyous noise of rock music and from the academic or the avant-garde. At local shows the trio is often joined by Greg Hagel, who contributes layers of rhodes piano, lo-fi organ, and various percussion. They are currently working with producer Greg Saunier (Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, Experimental Dental School) on a much-anticipated debut LP.
"Blonde Redhead met the Dirty Three, had a fight, then had a baby with King Crimson contributing ancillary sperm. The bundle of noise was named Sholi and was greeted with oohs and aahs from psych-heads, prog-maniacs, and cut-the-BS rock and rollers, all frozen in unison to take in the babe's darkly romantic and roomy wails... What meets your ear should be mathematically ethereal and strangely danceable—the group hides its pop-imp self under a trench coat festooned with knives and chain saws, like that of the woman in the Far Side who told her date she was going to slip into something more comfortable." -SF Bay Guardian
Some bands with whom Sholi has shared the stage in 2006: Xiu Xiu, The Dead Science, The Gris Gris, Imaad Wasif (formerly of alaska!, YYY's), Erase Errata, Experimental Dental School, Citizens Here and Abroad, and Scissors for Lefty.
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